Damning With Faint Praise

by Yowie

Damning With Faint Praise cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 9 October 2012
  • Label: Skin Graft
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 28:51
  • Community rating: 3.36/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Jim Hagerty, Defenestrator, Jeremiah Wonsewitz

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Arriving eight years after their debut, the St. Louis trio delivers an overwhelmingly complex exercise in instrumental dissonance and rhythmic abstraction. The dual-guitar interplay functions more like percussion, executing hyper-technical, atonal patterns locked into impossibly dense, shifting time signatures. It stands as a monument of brutal prog, renowned for inducing a sense of manic disorientation while maintaining razor-sharp structural discipline.

Genres

Descriptors: complex, uncommon-time-signatures, instrumental, atonal, technical, dissonant

Tracklist

  1. Slowly But Surly (6:09)
  2. Whippersnapper (4:33)
  3. I Could Care Less (6:19)
  4. Shriners Sure Do Cuss A Lot (5:09)
  5. Eternally Collapsing Object (6:40)

Credits

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